Apparently, John Travolta thinks that Hairspray is not a gay film. Has he seen it?!?
As the blogger I linked to says:
Hairspray is a movie written by a gay man. The role you are playing was originated by a gay man. The film and the musical are camp. It may not have any openly gay characters in it, but that does not make it a “straight” film. You haven’t the slightest clue what you’re talking about. As an actor in a remake of a remake, you do not get to say what this film is.
Hairspray is gayer than a leather daddy singing “I Will Survive” at Karaoke night at The Manhole.
I also love the commenters' preference for Edna being Rikki Lake if they were looking to avoid the whole camp/drag casting aspect, as they did with Travolta (at least the camp part)--that would have been perfect (if too young) casting!
Top Ten Greatest Chicago Movies. Nice list, but I would have put The Fugitive higher than #9.
Hairspray is gayer than a leather daddy singing “I Will Survive” at Karaoke night at The Manhole.
I don't know that it's gayer than
that,
but it's definitely Queer, and Travolta should shut his piehole.
Apparently, John Travolta thinks that Hairspray is not a gay film. Has he seen it?!?
Methinks it would take a LOT of experience with denial to be able to make that statement about Hairspray. Wonder what he practiced on? blinks innocently...
Huh. I never knew that the first two
Die Hard
movies were based on books. The things you learn from Wikipedia. The third was partially based on another screenplay, and the fourth, as I noticed with amusement during the credits, was based on an
article.
One of the metacritic User Reviews for transformers that I found especially poignant:
This movie was AWSOME, from the visual effects to the hot chicks.
I honestly can't decide if this is intended to be ironic or not.
That sounds like my kind of movie.
And I'm not being ironic! Mostly. I do enjoy both visual effects and hot chicks.
the fourth, as I noticed with amusement during the credits, was based on an article.
Another movie based on a magazine article? Pushing Tin. Which, while it did have some good things going for it, wanted to be three different movies, and never really decides which one it wants to be, and thus plays like three parts of three different, semi-unrelated movies.
It's like
Speed
! Which is an elevator movie, a bus movie, and a subway movie, all in one!
HA!
Well, Pushing Tin seemed even less well connected than Speed. At least the three parts of Speed were all action movie.
The three parts of Pushing Tin seem really disjointed. Like, buddy comedy, romantic entanglement movie, and messed up guy gets his head cleared movie.
